The scholarship of a Ghanaian student in the United States of America, Derrick Boadi Sakyi, has been withdrawn following his involvement in hateful attacks against LGBT Ghanaians on Twitter.
The attacks were exposed by Ghanaian LGBT activist known as Papa Kojo after receiving a threat from Sakyi.
Papa Kojo’s search showed that Sakyi had just started a PhD program in Biological Science at Ohio University in the United States under a scholarship.
According to reports, the scholarship was meant for LGBTQIA+ community members, applicants from the Global South, first-generation students, and people with disabilities.
Upon realising the contradiction, Kojo wrote to the university to inform them about the attack he received from Sakyi attaching other abusive and hateful posts he had made against the LGBT community in Ghana.
Shortly after writing to the University, he received a reply indicating that Sakyi’s scholarship had been suspended pending a review.
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